I suspended them and then re-started the client, that seemed to work. I'll check tonight to see if any other are stuck.

I was hoping to be able to run my crunchers on Ubuntu but if I'll have to tend to them daily like this (pretty inconvenient since they're headless) maybe I'll have to switch to Windows. I've been running two crunchers on W7's grace period, I'll see how they behave after that.

Does W7 shutdown after 2 hours like Vista did when you had an inactivated copy?

EDIT: Looks like I should be able to run them on W7. Apparently Windows update gets disabled and you can't customize the desktop but it won't kick you out. The Sempron cruncher is going to run out of the grace period after March 11th, I'll keep a close eye on it.

The Software Center still uses the old 7.0.27 version. I haven't bothered updating mine as I took the "dead weight" machines offline (A stock Dell Dimension 8300 with a P4 s478 3GHz HT, 875P board and FX 5200 literally takes 160w for 250-500 PPD) and moved my GCN rigs to Win7, but I still have a Pentium M laptop and my Dimension E520/Xeon X3210 using Ubuntu.

I don't remember where I saw it mentioned earlier, but is there any problem with having BOINC installed on the ssd? I was about to uninstall and reinstall to my hdd, just in case. I'm assuming there's a lot of writes going on there, but I never thought it was something to worry about....

I dont think boinc being on an ssd would cause problems, it just might shorten its life a little and I mean a little. Boinc makes lots of writes and it seems like it is pretty easy just to install it on anther drive if you can.